M 4.5 in Japan on 25 Oct 2020 15:13 UTC

Event summary

This earthquake can have a low humanitarian impact based on the magnitude and the affected population and their vulnerability.

GDACS ID EQ 1240879
Earthquake Magnitude: 4.5M
Depth: 146.88 Km
Lat/Lon: 31.1957 , 139.9839
Event Date: 25 Oct 2020 15:13 UTC
26 Oct 2020 00:13 Local
Exposed Population:
Few people within 100km
Inserted at: 25 Oct 2020 16:13 UTC
INFORM Coping capacity:
1.1 (Japan)

GDACS Score

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  Earthquake GDACS score
NEIC 0 0
us6000cd0n Scaled population (vector) -0.4  
  C1 earthquake 1  
  C2 earthquake 0  
  Country Vulnerability 0  
  INFORM_normalised 1  
Maximum expected impact using different data sources.
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Latest media headlines

Articles: 146 | About casualties: 0 | Last hour: 0

Shorter N700S to serve NagasakiThu, 29 Oct 2020 11:25:00 +0100.

JAPAN: JR Kyshu is to introduce a six-car derivative of the N700S high speed train family for use on the isolated Kyushu Shinkansen branch from Takeo Onsen to Nagasaki, which is scheduled to open in 2022.
Japan PM says plan to release Fukushima water coming soonThu, 29 Oct 2020 00:07:00 +0100.

Japanese Prime Minister Yoshihide Suga said Wednesday that his government is working on the final details of a plan to release massive amounts of radioactive water being stored at the wrecked Fukushima nuclear plant, a decision that has bee
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Suga says plan to release Fukushima water coming soonWed, 28 Oct 2020 22:44:00 +0100.

Japanese Prime Minister Yoshihide Suga said Wednesday that his government is working on the final details of a plan to release massive amounts of radioactive water being stored at the wrecked Fukushima Daiichi nuclear plant, a decision that
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Japan PM Yoshihide Suga says plan to release Fukushima water coming so ... Wed, 28 Oct 2020 16:54:00 +0100.

Japanese Prime Minister Yoshihide Suga said Wednesday that his government is working on the final details of a plan to release the massive amounts of radioactive water being stored at the wrecked Fukushima nuclear plant, a decision that has
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Estimated casualties (PAGER)

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Exposed population

Data, images, links, services and documents

For this events, GDACS has links to information from the following sources: EC-JRC (41), (3), NEIC (4), OCHA (1), INGV (1), WMO (1), INFORM (2), USGS (2),